Carlile from whence they were driven and many of them put to death also Sir Francis Bigott and others began a conspiracie and for the same were atainted The twenty ninth of March were twelve men of Lincolne drawn to Tiburn and there hanged and quartered for a new rebellion In Somerset shire was another rebellion began by Mr. Paulet and some other of his friends the chief of them to the number of sixty were condemned whereof fourteen were hanged and quartered one of them was a woman In Iune the Lord Darcie the Lord Hussey Sir Robert Constable Sir Tho. Pierce Sir Francis Bigott Sir Stephen Hamelton Sir Iohn Bulmer and his wife George Lumbley Nicholas Temple Robert Ask VVilliam Thrift Abbot of Fountains Anthony Abbot of Gervaur the Abbot of Rivers William Prior of Burlington all these were put to death Sir Robert Constable of Hull Ask hanged on a Tower â—t York Lady Bulmer burned in Smithfield Loâ—d Darcie beheaded at Tower hill Lord Hussey at Lincolne and the rest of them suffered at Tiburn The twelfth of October was born at Hampton-Court Prinâ—e Edward and Qâ—een Iane lost her life the 14 of October Alwin a Pâ—iest Harsam customer of Plimmouth and Thomas Evel were all hanged and quartered at Tiburn The twelfth of May Fryer Forrest was hanged and burned in Smithfield for denying the kings supremacy with him was burnt the gathering of Wales that is as much as to say Darvar an image The seventeenth of May was a great fire at Saint Margaret Pattons in London where many houses and many perâ—ons were burned Edmond Cunningsby for counterfeiting the kings signe Manual and Edward Clifford for the same cause were hanged at Tiburn The first of September was one Cartwel hangman of London and two other hanged by Clarken-wel for robbing a Booth in Bartholomew faire Henry Marquess of Exceter Earl of Devonshire Hen. Pool L. Mountacute Sir Edward Nevil the 9th of Ian. were beheaded on tower hill two Priests Crofts Collins and a Marriner were hanged and quartered at tyburn Iohn Lambert was burnt in Smithfield on Ashwednesday Iohn Potter and William Mannering hanged in Pauls Church-yard for killing of Roger Cholmley Esq in the same place The third of March Sir Richard Carew knight of the Garter and Master of the kings horse was beheaded on toweâ— hill The Vicar of VVansworth with his servant and his Chaplain and Fryer Ware wâ—â—e hâ—nged and quartered at Saint Thomas VVatrings At this time were all monasteries suppressed because the king like Ianus would look two wayes The Abbot of Reading and two Priests were hanged and quarter'd at Reading the same day was Richard Whiting Abbot of Glassenbury hanged and quartered at Tower-hill besides his Monastery according to an old Prophesie The Lady Anne Cleve received at Black-heath and brought to Greenwich and the sixth of the same moneth married to King Henry The ninth of Iuly Thomas Lord Cromwel Earl of Essex was committed to the tower of London the 28 of Iuly he was beheaded on tower-hill with the Lord Hungerford King Henry was divorced from the Lady Anne of Cleve The thirtieth of Iuly Robert Barnes Thomas Gerrard William Ierome Priests weâ—e burned in Smithfield the same day Thomas Abell Edward Powel and Richard Featherstone were hanged and qâ—â—â—tered for denying the kings supâ—emacy the fourth of August were drawn to Tyburne six persons and one lead Laurence Cook Prior of Doncaster William Horn a Laie bâ—other of the Charterhouse Giles Horn Gentleman Clement Philpot Edmond Broomeham Darbie Kenham Robert Bird Gervis Carow all put to death for denying the sâ—pâ—emacie The King married again The eighth of August Lady Katherine Howard was â—hewed openly as Qâ—een at Hampton-Court Great draught and a great death of hot buâ—ning agues and feavours the salt water flowed above London-bridge Ralph Egerton and Thomas Harman put to death for counterfeiting the Kings bâ—oad Seal In April certain persons began a new rebellion in York-shire whiâ—h were shortly taken and put to death in several places of which Leigh Tattersal and Thornton were put to death at London Sir Iohn Nevil Knight and ten persons more were put to death at York The Countess of Salisbury was beheaded in the tower Damport and Chapman were hanged at Greenwich for a robbery The 21 of Iune Lord Leonard Grey was beheaded on the tower-hill he was Deputy of Ireland the same day were hanged at St. Thomas VVatrings Mantile Roydon and Frowds Gentlemen for spoil and murder they had done in Nicholas Pelhams Park the Lord of Dacres of the South being in company on Saint Peters day was led from the tower to tyburn and there hanged On Christmas Eve at night began a great fire in the house of Sir Iohn Williams master of the Kings Jewels where many of those jewels were burnt and a great many of them stoln The Lady Katherine Howard whom the King had married for her unchast living with Thomas Culpeper and Francis Durham was by Parliament attainted Culpeper and Durham were hanged at Tyburn The 23 of Ianuary the King was proclaimed King of Ireland the 13 of February were beheaded within the Tower the Lady Katherine Howard otherwise called Queen Katherine and the Lady Rochford An. Reg. 34 An. Dom. 1542 The seventh of March Margaret Davy a Maid was boiled in Smithfield for poysoning three housholds where she had lived The 12 of Iuly King Henry married Lady Katherine Parre late wife to the Lord Latimer Anthony Person Robert Testwood and Henry Filmer were burnt at Windsor A great plague was at London and therefore Michaelmas term was adjourned to Saint Albans This year â—hanâ—ed four eclipses one of the Sun the 24 of Ianuary and three of the Moon German Gardner and Lark Parsons of Châ—lsey Singleton and Assbey were hanged at Tyburn for denying the Kings Supremacy An. Dom. 1544 The third of April a Gun-powder house in East-Smithfield was blown up and therein burned five men a boy and a woman This year was taken by the Kings ships on the English Coast the number of three hundred French ships so that the Grey-Friers Church in London was laid full of wine the Austin-Friers and Black-Friers were laid full of Herrings and other fish that were taken going into France A Priest did penance at Pauls-Cross and there confessed that he pricked his finger when he was at Mass and wiped it on the Corporis and Altar cloth and went about to make the people believe that the miraculous Host did bleed after the words of Consecration The 13 of February a Priest was set on the Pillory in Cheap-side and burnt in both cheeks with the letters F and A. a paper on his head wherein was written For false accusing which judgement was given by the Lord Chancellor in the Star-â—hamber a notable example of Justice An. Reg. 37 An. Dom. 1545 The French Kings Navy coming out of New-haven and Deep arrived in Sussex afore bright Hamsted where they set some of their Souldiers a land but the Beacons were fired and
such continual lightning and thunder that the like hath not been seen nor heard by any man living An. Dom. 1564 In the moneth of December was driven or the shore at Grimsby in Lincolnshire a monstrous fish in length nineteen yatds his tail fifteen foot broad and six yards between his eyes The twentieth of September rose great floods in the Thames that the marshes were overflowed and many cattel drowned The seventh of October all the North parts of the element seemed to be covered with flames of fire proceeding from the North-East and North-West towards the midst of the firmament and descended West The twenty first of Decemb. began a frost which continued so extremely that on New-years even people went over and along the thames on the yce from London-bridge to Westminster some played at the Foot-ball divers of the Court being there at Westminster shot at the Butts upon the Thames and people both men and women went on the yce in greater numbers then in any street in London On the third day of Ianuary it began to thaw and on the fifth day was no yce to be seen between London-bridge and Lambeth which sudden thaw caused great floods and high waters that bare down bridges and houses and drowned many people in England especially in York-shire it bore away Owse bridge and many other bridges The sixteenth of Iune began a tempest about nine a clock at night so great a tempest of lightning and thunder with showres of hail which continued till three of the clock in the next morning so terrible that at Chelmesford in Essex five hundred acres of corn was destroyed the glass windows of the East side of the town were beaten down and on the West and South-sides of the Church were beaten down with all the tiles of their houses besides divers barns and chimneys with the battlements of the Church which were overthrown the like harm was done in many other places as at Leed Crainbrook and Dover This year by the commandment of the Councel divers musters of light horsemen on sundry daies and in divers places about the City of London were taken by the Mayor and other Commissioners for that purpose But thus it happen'd on the eighth day of October that Sir Richard Mallory riding through tower-street toward the tower-hill there to take muster as was appointed he was met by Sir Francis Iobson then Lievtenant of the tower and by him forbidden to enter the Hill with the Sword before him whereunto no answer was made by the Mayor but the Sword was violently seized upon by the Lievtenant and his men and defended by the Officers of the Mayor so that the Lievtenant called for more Officers and assistance out of the tower and the Mayors Officers were minded to raise tower-street and some of the City so there was like to have been a great tumult but the Lord Mayor caused proclamation to be made that no man should draw a weapon or strike a stroke but every man to depart home horse-men and all till they were again warned to appear which was on the same day seventh night being likewise Munday and the fifteenth day of Octoher they did there appear before the Mayor and did muster in the very place where they were appointed where by the Councels appointment the Mayor had the Sword peaceably born before him as had been accustomed An. Reg. 8 The twenty fourth of December there arose a great storm of winde by whose rage the Seas and thames overwhelmed many persons and the great gates at the West end of Saint Pauls Church in London by force of the winde were blown open An. Dom. 1596 About this time Sir Thomas Gresham built the Royal Exchange by the advice of Queen Elizabeth at his own proper cost and charges a fit meeting place for Merchants who in former times used to meet in Lombard-street An. Reg. 9 The 22 of April by great misfortune of fire in the town of Ossestry in Wales to the number of two hundred houses besides cloth corn and cattel were consumed The seuenteenth of May in the town of Milnal in Suffolk thirty seven houses besides baâ—ns and stables were consumed with fire in the space of two houres An. Reg. 9 After a dry Summer followed a sharp Winter which caused such a scarcity of fodder and hay that in divers places the same was sold by weight for five pence the stone there followed also a great dearth of corn On the twenty eighth of March the Queen sent three of her Ships to Sea to wit the Antelope the Swallow and the Aid and one Bark against the Subjects of King Philip who fought with eleven Sail and brought home great treasure Within a while after they fought with fourteen Sail more whereof six of them were sent into the river of thames An. Dom. 1568 The Gravesend Barge was cast away and a many boats beside through a tempest The eleventh of October were taken in Suffolk at Downham-bridge seventeen monstrous fishes some of them twenty seven foot in length two miles from Ipswich The twenty seventh of Ianuary a French man and two English men were drawn from Newgate to Tyburn and there hanged the French man was quartered for coyning of gold counterfeit the English men the one had clipped silver the other for coyning tin-money The plague encreasing Michaelmas term was adjourned unto Hillary term An. Reg. 12 The Queen caused the Earl of Northumberland and the Earl of Westmerland for rebellion in the North to be proclaimed traytors and forthwith prepared an Army to suppress them the twenty fourth of November The two Earls were overthrown and fled into Scotland The other rebels were taken by the Earl of Sussex The fourth and fifth of Ianuary did suffer at Durham to the number of sixty six Constables and others among whom an Alderman of the town and one Parson Plumtree then George Bowers Marshall did see them executed in every town and other places betwixt New-castle and Wetherby about six miles in length and four miles in bredth The 22 of February Leonard Dacre having raised a number of people the Lord Hunsdon setting on him with a company of valiant Souldiers slew many of his people and forced him to fly into Scotland On Good-Friday the twenty seventh of March Simon Digby Iohn Fulthroppe Esquire Robert Pennieman Thomas Bishop Gentleman were drawn from the Castle of York and there hanged headed and quartered The seventeenth of April the Earl of Suslex with the Lord Hunsdon Master William Drury High Marshal of Barwick with all the Garrison and power of the same began a journey into Scotland and enter'd into Tividale burnt overthrew and spoiled all the Castles towns and villages before them till they came to Craling Sir Iohn Foster with a Garrison enter'd Scotland burnt and spoiled Cargeln there both the Armies met and overthrew all that came before them till they came to Godworth the Lievtenant returned to Barwick the 22 of April The Lord Scrope Warden
great damage upon the land and the net spring extraordinary rain fell even till Saint Iames-tide and yet upon the humble and hearty prayers of the people in all Churches it pleased Almighty God to send a more plentiful harvest then had been in many years before Friday the sixteenth of October 1612. at eleven a clock at night aririved at Gravesend the most illustrious young Prince Fredrick the fift of that name Count Palatine of the Reyne being very princely attended he was received by Sir Lewis Lewkenor Knight master of the ceremonies whom the King had sent before to attend the coming of the Prince upon knowledge of his arrival the King sent speedily the Duke of Lenâ—x with other Earls and Barons to signifie his hearty welcome and the next Sunday they accompanied the Palsgrove by Barge from Cravesend to VVhite Hall where Prince Charles Duke of York received him at his first landing and brought him up into the great bankqueting house where he was entertained by the King Queen Henry Prince of Wales and the Lady Elizabeth The twenty ninth of October the Palsgrave dined at Guild-Hall and the chief nobility of the Land where he had presented unto him a rich Bason and Eure and two Liverypots richly engraven and richly guilded Friday the sixth of October died the most noble and hopeful Prince Henry Prince of Wales he was royally buried in the Chappel Royal at Westminster the seventh of December Upon Saint Thomas day the Palsgrave and Grave Marris were elected Knights of the Garter and upon Sunday the seventh of February the Palsgrave and Grave Maurice was enstalled at Windsor The fourteenth of February being Shrove Sunday the Lady Elizabeth was married to the Palsgrave in as most royal manner as ever Princes were with masking tilting and turnament and many rare showes both by land and water where the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London in behalf of the City and themselves presented the bride with a very fair chain of oriental Pearl And thus Reader have I presented thee a chain of the best oriental pearles I could pick out of K. Iames his raign being most remarkable and worthy observation who was called a second Solomon and the peace-maker of Christendome and had peace with all Nations and I conclude thus If we by Kings again should ruled be We wish to have no worse a King then he This land did flourish by the trades increase He rul'd he swai'd he liv'd he di'd in peace Remarkable Passages The Life and Reign of King Charles Anno. 1600 CHarles the second Son of King Iames on the ninetenth day of November in the yeer 1600. During his Infancy he was of a very sickly constitution and at his birth so unlike to live that his Christening was dispatched in haste but as he grew in yeers he did grow into strength An. Dom. 1602 Being two yeers old he was Created Duke of Albany Marquesse of Ormond Earle of Rosse and Barron of Ardmanock An. Dom. 1603 On the twenty sixth of March King Iames had newes that Queen Elizabeth was dead by Sir Robert Cary for which good newes this young D. of Albany was afterwards committed to the charge and governance of Sir Robert Caries Lady An. Dom. 1604 On the seventh of Iune 1604. he was created Duke of Yorke An. Dom. 1606 and in the sixth yeer of his age 1606. he was taken from the charge of the women Master Thomas Murray a Scot by Nation was made his Tutor he profited exceedingly in the knowledge of good letters An. Dom. 1611 In the 11. yeer of his age was he made Knight of the Garter and in the yeer following he lost his Brother Prince Henry whom he immediately succeded in the Dukedom of Cornwall An. Dom. 1616 On the third of November 1616. he was creared Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester and Flint An. Dom. 1622 And on the eighteenth of February 1622. attended with the Duke of Buckingham Sir Francis Cottington and Master Indimion Porter he being disguised took Ship at Dover arrived at Bulloign in France and having casually had a sight of Lady Henretta Mariah at a Mask at Paris he rode post from thence to the Court of Spain An. Dom. 1623 On the seventh of March he arrived at Madrid and the King of Spain being informed by Count D Olivares what a hazzardous adventure he had taken to have a sight of the Infanta he had that Royal entertainment given him which a Princely Sutor might expect and by his Courtly and Gallant behaviour did win much on the affections of the Infanta and the Articles of the Marriage were agreed upon but the Pope protracting time and there being no hope of the Restitution of the Palatinate which was one of the gratest occasion of his Journey having desired leave to return he with much danger arrived at Portsmouth on the fifth day of October 1623. The treaty with Spain being not now likely to proceed it was now thought fit to negotiate a Marriage with the Princes Hennaretta Mariah the youngest daughter of France which in the yeer 1624. was carrion by the Earle of Holland and afterwards concluded by the Earl of Carlile and King Iames did seem to be exceedingly well pleased with it An. Dom. 1624 On the yeer following March the seventh King Iames died at Thebalds and immediately afterwards Prince Charles was Proclaimed at the Court Gate King of Great Brittain France and Ireland The Funeralls of the deceased King were celebrated on the seventh of May and presently afterwards were the Espousals of King Charles with the Lady Hennaretta Mariah who on the twelfth of Iune landed at Dover the King being then at Canterbury did meet her the next day at Dover His first complement unto her was that he would be no longer master of himself then he was a servant to her And this love he continued to the last houre of his life for on the day before his unfortunate end his daughter the Lady Elizabeth with the Duke of Yorke being with much adoe permitted to come unto him he desired the Lady Elizabeth to assure her mother if ever she again did see her that his thoughts had never strayed from her and that his affections should be the same to the last On the Thursday following they came from Gravesend to Whitehall with a very great company of Lords and Ladies and the Great Guns from the Ships and the Tower of London did thunder forth their gratulations as shee passed by them On Saturday the eightenth of Iune there was a Parliament assembled but the plague growing hot it was adjourned to Oxford where the King did put them in minde as before of necessity of putting forth his Fleet the in pursuance of the war in which they had ingaged his father but the began now to quarrell at the greatnesse of the Duke of Buckingham and laid something to his charge in reference to the death of his father whereupon the King expecting monies to advance the affaires of the
as the like a long time could not be remembered insomuch that the channels of the City ran so violently that a Lad about â—he age of eighteen years near unto Dowgate was borne down the stream and by the same carried from the Conduit there towards the thames with such a swiftness that no man with staves or otherwise could stay him till he came against a cart-wheel that stood in the water-gate and there he was taken up dead An. Reg. 17 Michaelmas term which had been adjourned by Proclamation began at Westminster on the sixth of November the same sixth day in the morning there happened two great tides in the river of thames the first by course the second within an hour after which overflowed the marshes the fourteenth of November about midnight divers strange apparitions of fire and smoke were seen in the ayr to proceed out of a dark cloud in the North towards the South which so continued till the morning the next day following the heavens did seem to be all on a firâ— and over our heads the flames from the Horizon round about did seem to meet The twenty fourth of February at Flies in February Tewksbury a strange thing happened after a flood in the afternoon there came down the river of Avon a great number of flies and Beetles suâ—h as in Summer evenings use to strike men on the face in great heâ—ps a fooâ— thick on the water so that to credible mens judgements there were within a pair of Butts length of those flies about an hundred quarters the mills thereabout were quite dammed up with them for the space of four daies after and then were cleansed by digging them out with shovels from whence they came is yet unknown but the day was cold and a hard frost The sixteenth of February between four and five a clock in the afternoon great earthquakes happened in the City of York Worcester Glocester Bristow Hereford and the countryes about which caused the people to run out of their houses for fear they should have fallen upon their heads in Tewksbury Bredon and other places the dishes fell from the shelves and books in mens Studies fell down before their faces In Norton Chappel the people being on their knees at evening prayer the ground moving caused them to run away in great fear fearing that the dead bodies would have risen or the Chappel have fallen part of Rithing Castle fell down with certain brick Chimneys in Gentlemens houses The 22 of Iuly two Dutchmen Anabaptists were burned in Smithfield The thirtieth of Iuly was a great tempest of thunder and lightning both men and beasts in divers places were stricken dead also hailstones fell which were seven inches about The twenty sixth of September a Poulterers wife in the Parish of Christ-Church without Newgate was brought to bed of four children at one birth and the same day moneth the mother was buried but all the four children were living and were christned but lived not long after the mother An. Reg. 18 The eleventh of February Anne Averies Widdow fâ—â—swearing her self for a little money that she should have paid for six pound of tow at a shop in Woodstreet of London fell immediately down speechless casting up at her mouth the same matter which by natures course should have been voided downwards till she died a terrible example of Gods Judgements against them that make no conscience of forswearing themselves An. Dom. 1576 The fifth of March in the night a Tilt-boat with the number of thirty persons coming from Gravesend to London were all drowned except one boy The moneth of August many complaints being brought to the Queen against the Flushingers for great spoils and robberies by them committed upon her Subjects her Majesty gave commandement to put four good ships and two Barks of her own to Sea under the charge of Master William Hollstock Esq Controuler of her Majesties Ships with eleven hundred men victualled for six weeks in which time was taken eight Flushingers Ships and Barks prizes and two hundred and twenty Sea-rovers in them who were sent to several prisons Walter Earl of Essex and Earl Marshal of Ireland Knight of the Garter died in Ireland the twenty fifth of August at Divelyn and was buried at Carmarthen in Wales The seventeenth of March through a strange tempest which happened in the North near the town of Richmond not only cottages trees barns and hay-stacks but also the most part of a Church called Patrick Brunton was overthrown with most strange sights seen in the ayr both terrible and fearful The twentieth of Iune William Lumley a poor man in the Parish of Emeley in the County of Worcester being kept in prison by a wealthy Widdow he having a Mare of 22 years old with Foal within three daies after foaled a mare colt the which immediately had an Udder out of which was milked the same day a pint of milk and every day after gave above three pints to the great relief of his wife and children the which colt continued so a long time after as hath been seen by many thousands The fourth fifth and sixth dayes was the Assizes held at Oxford where was arraigned and condemned one Rowland Inks for his seditious tongue at which time ther arose amidst the people a damp that almost all were smothered very few escaped that were not taken at that instant the Jurors died at that instant shortly after died Sir Robert Bell Lord Chief Baron Sir Ro de Olie Sir William Babington Master Wenman Master de Olie High Sheriff Master Danvers Master Harcourt Master Kirk Master Fietplace Master Greenwood Master Foster Master Nash Serjeant Barham Master Stevens there died in Oxford three hundred persons and sickned there and died in other places two hundred and odd from the sixth of Iuly to the twelfth of August after which day died not one of that sickness On Sunday the fourth of August between the hour of nine and ten of the clock in the forenoon whilst the Minister was reading of the second Lesson in the Parish Church of Bliborough a town in Suffolk a strange and terrible tempest of lightning and thunder strooke through the wall of the same Church into the ground almost a yard deep drave down all the people on that side above twenty persons then rending the wall up to the Vestry cleft the door and returned to the Steeple rent the timber brake the chaines and fled towards Bongey six miles off the people that were stricken down were found groveling on the ground more then halfe an houre after whereof a man and a boy were found stark dead the other were scorched the like flash of lightning and cracks of thunder rent the parish Church of Bongey nine miles from Norwich wrung in sunder the wiers and wheels of the Clock slew two men which sate in the Belfrey and scorched another which hardly escaped An. Reg. 20 The eleaventh of November at night was seen a blazing Star with a long stream